Who Owns Uber?

Uber has no owner. Uber Technologies, Inc. is listed on the New York Stock Exchange with no controlling shareholder and no parent company. Around 85% of the stock is held by institutions, the largest being Vanguard at roughly 8.4% and BlackRock at about 7.4% — both index managers holding on behalf of other investors. Insiders hold well under 1%. Ownership verified 6 September 2026.

Who owns Uber today?

Uber Technologies, Inc. is a public company with no parent above it. Ownership is spread across institutional and retail shareholders and changes daily as the stock trades.

Uber is unusual among large technology companies in having no founder control. It has a single class of common stock, so votes track shares — there is no dual-class structure of the kind that keeps Meta with Zuckerberg and Alphabet with its founders.

Ultimate parent and corporate structure

There is no ultimate parent. Uber Technologies, Inc. sits at the top, with operating subsidiaries in each market beneath it, including the UK entities that hold its private hire operator licences.

Those UK licences are worth separating from ownership. Uber holds operator licences granted by Transport for London and other authorities, which have been suspended and restored at various points. A licence is permission to operate, granted and withdrawn by a regulator; it says nothing about who owns the company.

Major shareholders or controlling persons

Reported positions as of early 2026:

• The Vanguard Group — around 8.4%
• BlackRock — around 7.4%
• Capital Research & Management — around 5.7%
• Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund — around 3.6%, a top-ten holder
• Insiders — collectively under 0.5%

Institutions hold roughly 85% in total. As on this site’s other listed-company profiles, Vanguard and BlackRock appear as the largest holders because they run index funds holding nearly every large listed company on behalf of pension and retail investors. They are not owners in the ordinary sense.

Where the sources disagree. SoftBank was once Uber’s largest shareholder, at a reported peak of around 15%, having led a major investment in 2018. Some sources report that it began selling in 2022 and exited entirely by 2023; another puts its current holding at around 3.2%. These cannot both be right, and this page does not choose between them: the honest position is that SoftBank’s stake was sold down substantially from its peak, and whether any residual remains is not settled by the sources consulted. The authoritative answer is in Uber’s proxy statement and current Schedule 13G filings.

Official records and evidence

No UK register records Uber’s ownership. Uber Technologies, Inc. is US-listed and discloses through SEC filings — the annual proxy statement for insider and director holdings, and Schedule 13G filings for institutions crossing 5%.

Every percentage above is a snapshot from such a filing, and institutional positions move continuously. The disagreement over SoftBank illustrates why: secondary sources report from filings of different dates and are rarely explicit about which.

Ownership history and changes

Uber was founded in 2009 by Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp and raised heavily from venture and sovereign investors while private, including SoftBank and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. Kalanick left as chief executive in 2017 after a governance crisis and has since sold his shareholding.

Uber floated in May 2019. Since then the private backers have progressively sold down and index funds have become the largest holders — the standard path for a company several years past flotation, and the reason a company once defined by its investors now has no controlling one.

Related companies and brands

Uber operates Uber, Uber Eats and Uber Freight. It also holds minority stakes in other mobility and delivery companies acquired through the sale of its overseas operations — most notably in Didi and Grab, which bought Uber’s China and Southeast Asia businesses respectively, paying partly in their own shares.

Those are Uber’s holdings in other companies, not companies that own Uber, and the direction matters: exiting a market in exchange for equity leaves Uber as a shareholder in its former competitor.